r/BeAmazed • u/SelectResident_BE • Feb 11 '25
Place The oppressive feeling of the pamir plateau
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u/Ancient-Egg-57 Feb 11 '25
In case anyone else was wondering about this Pamir Plateau too, here's a quick link with more info about it
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u/rhiddian Feb 12 '25
I'm so excited! I lived here for 7 years when I was a kid.
I am going back here in June!
I am taking my 4 year old daughter to visit.
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u/Chewable-Chewsie Feb 12 '25
That trip will be so wonderful for you and your 4 year old. Have a great time.
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u/rhiddian Feb 12 '25
Thanks! Looking forward to showing her the castle where I found my pet tortoise.
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u/Genghis_Chong Feb 12 '25
Castle? Pet tortoise? You have me thinking you're the hero in a cartoon or something haha
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u/rhiddian Feb 12 '25
Certainly felt like that growing up there!
I also lost that tortoise (Theresa) and found it two months later.... IN THE ATTIC
To this day my sister and I have no idea how it got up there.
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u/leeringHobbit Feb 12 '25
What were your family doing there? Are you natives who immigrated?
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u/rhiddian Feb 12 '25
Other way around.
I moved there when I was 5 left when I was 12.
I'm actually from New Zealand.My parents helped rebuild orphanages and deliver aid to refugees. Thay also started a program where they would teach girls who had aged out of the orphanages life skills so they could smoothly transition into society.
They moved back a couple years ago now that all the kids have grown up and left home. Now they've started a program helping people get their documents together so they can work.
So my wife, daughter and I are all flying over to visit then and see how the country has changed.
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u/snifty Feb 11 '25
Interesting place linguistically/ethnically too.
https://eos.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/central-asian-villages-pamir-mountains.png
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u/PM_ME_DATASETS Feb 11 '25
Logistically too. I literally just learned about the Pamir highway a couple of days ago. And it's a 1200 km route and the only route to traverse the mountain range, and it's been in use for thousands of years since it was also part of the ancient silk road.
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u/3-orange-whips Feb 12 '25
This is true of a lot of highways in the American west. They started as trails the indigenous tribes used, which were "discovered" by white "explorers" and, as more people went west, became roads that are now highways.
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u/Aggravating-Pound598 Feb 12 '25
A lot of roads and highways in Africa were elephant trails . Many human pathways followed animal trails ..
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u/thecashblaster Feb 12 '25
Geography is destiny. There are only so many mountain passes and favorable terrain for travel.
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u/MicksmstrCha Feb 11 '25
Thanks. There’s always someone with the info to my next questions. Thanks for being that hero today. Sláinte.
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u/sameoldknicks Feb 11 '25
Can't I just stay here and you'll feed me the information? (prefer in a bulleted format).
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u/3NunsCuppingMyBalls Feb 11 '25
I found another article here which talks about the ancient settlements in the region.
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u/locapeepers Feb 11 '25
That was disorienting until I could see the sky in the frame. What a cool spot!
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u/germanfinder Feb 11 '25
Ya at first I was like “man the moon is close this time of year”
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u/mattchewy43 Feb 11 '25
That's no moon.
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u/wildo83 Feb 11 '25
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u/Dayzed-n-Confuzed Feb 12 '25
“Your Mama is so big that ….(insert punchline of your choice here…)
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u/sarayewo Feb 12 '25
When you throw a rock at her it doesn't hit her but starts circling around her...
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u/NatureCarolynGate Feb 12 '25
Did you walk by my window this morning or was that a total eclipse of the sun?
- Fred Sanford (Redd Foxx in Sanford and Son)
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u/pfflynn Feb 12 '25
I feel that inverse. We moved from Western Washington/Central Oregon to Texas. I’m still trying to figure out where the hell the mountains are so I can tell north and south. 🙃
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u/xavierfern3751 Feb 12 '25
flat expanses of Texas must feel like being dropped into an open-world game with no landmarks.
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u/Official_Feces Feb 12 '25
Sounds like Sask or Man.
AB as a whole extending right to Sask border pretends their landscape is that of Banff.
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u/Monk_from_infinity Feb 11 '25
Imagine getting drunk and coming here
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u/ehhrud Feb 11 '25
Or mushrooms
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u/TurgidGravitas Feb 11 '25
It's only disorienting due to the camera settings. It's just a hill.
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u/KonigSteve Feb 11 '25
that's a mountain, but yes it is due to the camera
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u/TurgidGravitas Feb 11 '25
It's less than a km tall. That's a hill.
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u/KonigSteve Feb 11 '25
https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=pamir+plateau
It's a mountain. By name. By definition, whatever you'd like.
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u/Sanjomo Feb 12 '25 edited Feb 12 '25
20,000 ft elevation is damn impressive for a hill!
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u/hemlockecho Feb 11 '25
What are they doing with the camera here? Is it just zoomed in and we aren't used to seeing moving videos with extended zoom like this? I've seen other videos like this before that are disorienting in the same way,
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u/Lv_InSaNe_vL Feb 11 '25
It's just a really long telephoto lens. Lenses like that will compress the image to make things look taller and more dramatic.
It's the same effect (but the opposite) going on in videos like this. The stairs are pretty steep still, but instead of looking almost vertical they look more like this from the side
The technical name for the effect is called "Lens Compression", and here is a good short or a good article with some more details of you want.
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u/AntiGrav1ty_ Feb 12 '25 edited Feb 12 '25
The effect is hard to see in those examples. It's surprisingly hard to find good examples that show the difference between wide angle lens and telephoto lenses. This youtube short kind of shows the difference in what you would normally see to what it looks like through a telephoto lens. The mountain looks much more intimidating, towering over the person with the dog because it makes the mountain look much closer to the subject than it actually is.
Same thing with the mountain behind La Paz with wide angle: Here
vs telephoto lens: Here
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u/ChiliConCairney Feb 12 '25
I'm so confused - is the video or photo meant to look worse?!? The stairs in the video look completely safe and normal to me, while the stairs in the photo look dangerous. But the way you phrased your comment implies the opposite
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u/KickFacemouth Feb 12 '25
You see a lot of lens compression in aviation photography, where people see pictures like this and talk about it going "straight up," when in reality is was more like 30°
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u/RockDrill Feb 12 '25
Yeah, to see the effect in action check out a dolly zoom shot like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUGvG89LH94
The camera is moving away from the actors, while zooming in at the same time to keep them the same size in frame.
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u/BoardButcherer Feb 11 '25
Hells canyon on the idaho/Washington border is the same.
Hurts your neck to be in the bottom and looking at the sky too long.
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u/Pure-Introduction493 Feb 12 '25
I went hiking there on a weekday. Place was eerily empty. I left early thinking “if something happened it feels like it would be weeks before someone cam across my body.”
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u/humanlikesubstances Feb 12 '25
I would like to express my sincere gratitude and appreciation; you did not say "disorientated".
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u/Doogers7 Feb 11 '25
Woah, it’s like when Paris folds in on itself in the movie Inception.
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u/Objective-Nobody-461 Feb 11 '25
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u/GrammarNaziii Feb 11 '25
Holy hell where did all my pixels go
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u/falcrist2 Feb 12 '25
There's a pixel tarrif. Every time the image is shared, 25% goes to the government.
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u/2reeEyedG Feb 11 '25
That’s a better analogy than what originally came to my mind was the crazy planets in Interstellar. Which funny enough, was another Nolan movie
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u/girlygiggleslol Feb 11 '25
Exactly. That scene was insane, and this totally captures that trippy, reality-bending feel.
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u/Nope_127 Feb 11 '25
Is there an actual word/name for this? I've been obsessed with that feeling but idk what to call it
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u/IdentifiableBurden Feb 12 '25
Let me know if you find one. I associate it with a feeling of (often pleasant) void or emptiness, where the meaning of reality itself is made questionable as your mind engages with the art or media. I think it's a subcategory of surrealism, but I don't have anything beyond that.
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u/Nope_127 Feb 12 '25
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u/RockDrill Feb 12 '25
more like when paris does this in the movie la haine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUGvG89LH94
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u/LyleTheLanley Feb 11 '25
I have visited the Pamir plateau, and my opinion is that there’s some camera trickery going on here. Feels like the saturation has been turned up, and the framing/zoom has been set to mess with your perception. That being said, the pamir mountains are very impressive - I just don’t recall them being quite as vibrant as this.
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u/JonJonesJackson Feb 12 '25
Probably done with a really long focal length, that's exactly what causes this effect.
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u/n1c0_ds Feb 12 '25
Agreed. The sense of scale is truly crazy in real life, but nothing like what is pictured here. It feels grand a bit like the Moab desert does.
Still one of the coolest landscapes I have seen.
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u/EelTeamTen Feb 12 '25
I'll say that this is a pretty possible view from a personal perspective. I've never been here, but the camera trickery does a good job of capturing how our eyes perceive views like this at times. I forget the phenomena, but without exterior references far off objects can look gargantuan.
I've seen this living in WA state and Mt Rainier, in certain areas would look massive even though it was hundreds of miles away, driving in SoCal mountains and feeling like an ant, driving in east TX mountains and the moon taking up 1/3 of my sky view.
I'd assume it's a lens that captures that effect, so it's not really disingenuous, because a normal lense wouldn't look anything like what your eyes see.
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u/CoralinesButtonEye Feb 11 '25
ok now record it again, but this time zoom out and show more of the sky the way the human eye would naturally view this
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u/NightKnight4766 Feb 11 '25
I wish people didn't feel the need to portray awesome nature as more awesome than it needs to be.
Reality really can't keep up with it.
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u/loxagos_snake Feb 11 '25
It's not trying to portray nature as more awesome, it's just the OC's artistic interpretation.
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u/kjbeats57 Feb 11 '25
Yeah idk why people can’t get that 😭
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u/-thegay- Feb 11 '25 edited Feb 11 '25
Some people forget photography is an art. It literally means “
paintingdrawing with light.” It doesn’t always need to be as our eyes see it.5
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u/Luxalpa Feb 11 '25
Also it's not possible to show it as our eyes would see it, as that strongly depends on how close you are in front of your monitor or how large your monitor / video / picture is.
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u/kjbeats57 Feb 11 '25
Technically it’s drawing not painting but yes 😂
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u/loxagos_snake Feb 11 '25
Even more technically it's writing/inscribing but we're getting annoying right now.
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u/Mathfanforpresident Feb 12 '25
Yeah, it's a rad shot. Don't even know what to call it, but it looks waaaay cooler this way. Even if it is an amazing place, pictures and videos never do it justice. This video, did.
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u/donutlad Feb 12 '25
conversely, I have seen some truly jaw-dropping scenery in nature, but when I tried to get a picture or video of it, it didnt even remotely translate. So I can understand why sometimes people try and spruce pics/videos up, to try and give a better sense of what the view is actually like
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u/CoastersandHikes Feb 12 '25
Yeah these armchair experts have definitely never tried taking a picture of a mountain. So hard to create the true feeling of scale with something so massive and often at a distance.
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u/lookslikeamanderin Feb 11 '25
No. The video captures what it feels like to approach a monolith like this pretty well. If anything the feeling of the thing growing out of the ground is understated in this video because it does not include peripheral visual data.
Get out and look around and you will understand.
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u/Jazzlike-Mistake2764 Feb 11 '25
And wider focal lengths exaggerate in the opposite direction, making large things look small.
There isn't a focal length that accurately shows what huge objects like this look like, but I'd say the video does a good job of recreating the feeling of it.
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u/nirmalspeed Feb 12 '25
Actually, the 50mm lens is what you'd use here. It's end result is basically the equivalent to what you see with your eyes.
This video about landscape photography touches on that a bunch with a bunch of examples of mountains and comparisons against other focal lengths. The examples are truly stunning and I think they do a great job of capturing scale.
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u/FlashOfTheBlade77 Feb 11 '25
How about you take a trip there and record it how you feel like it.
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u/Mongolian_Hamster Feb 12 '25
I remember hearing this kind of argument when I was 7.
"You do it then" pouts
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u/Doesure Feb 11 '25
I should call her
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u/Cupcake-Lucky Feb 12 '25
I was wondering how far I would scroll for this type of comment…started thinking I was the only one seeing something completely different 🤣
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u/koolaidismything Feb 11 '25
Megalophobia.
The fear of giant landmarks. I have that and agoraphobia I think.. fuck. I can’t focus until I’m somewhere like populated with utilities
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u/JustJohn211 Feb 11 '25
Reminds me of when I was driving through mountain roads at night. Scared the hell out of me, just a giant black mass all around and then the sky above it
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u/MonarcaAzul Feb 12 '25
I’ve never been able to explain this, but I feel the exact same way when driving in the dark. My husband and I took a trip up to Portland from the Bay Area and seeing Mount Shasta at night felt like a giant looming beast in front of us. It gave me the worst feeling of anxiety and I couldn’t shake it as it was hours.
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u/ILoveRegenHealth Feb 12 '25
Megalophobia.
Isn't that the fear of watching Francis Ford Coppola's disaster of a movie?
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u/harimajp Feb 11 '25
Wow, that's trippy.
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u/eamus_catuli Feb 11 '25
Yep. Reminds me of Captain Trips himself, Jerry Garcia, explaining to a cameraman on acid why he's feeling freaked out.
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u/HayGoward Feb 11 '25
Song?
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u/Big-Yard-2998 Feb 11 '25
O come, O come Emmanuel by Tommee profitt.
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u/catofcommand Feb 12 '25
It is absolutely the first 20 seconds or so of that song, but there are some subtle sound fx being applied: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQuq4umpb3Q
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u/Dawntillnoon Feb 12 '25
Thank you kind redditor. Was trying to find the song but Shazam collapsed trying to lol
Anyways if you throttle the video speed to 0.65 it sounds nearly exactly like in the video except they added a baseline and some FX too.
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u/Delicious-3rd-Leg Feb 11 '25
Plus that version was sung by children. They were amazing I'm not gonna lie, but this does not sound like a child singing it.
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u/S0M30NE Feb 12 '25
The video make it sound like a Chinese person trying to cover it, wonder where you could find ir
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u/pepchang Feb 11 '25
Should have been "landslide"
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u/Cautious-Ease-1451 Feb 11 '25
If you look closely, you can see the graves in the right hand corner. 😢
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u/Pixelated_Penguin808 Feb 12 '25
O Come O come Emmanuel, though it sounds like a horrific cover.
That is one of those songs that works best performed in traditional manner, with a choir and organ. Or, instrumental.
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u/bodhiseppuku Feb 11 '25 edited Feb 11 '25
What happens if a huge rock gives way and starts tumbling at us?
Well, then we die... i guess.
There's a low chance, but not a no chance this will happen right?
I mean, well, not "NO" chance, I guess.
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u/OramaBuffin Feb 11 '25
I started to wonder the same thing and then we literally see a Caution: Falling Rocks sign, so the answer is: Yes, it could happen.
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u/notionocean Feb 11 '25
Why do they have to put stupid music that sucks on all these video clips?
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u/excaliburxvii Feb 11 '25
TikTok brainrot. These people think they're Stanley Kubrick or something.
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u/MagicVonSwanson Feb 11 '25
Omg it’s like those movies where they have parallel planets & you can see the other one from yours
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u/ThinkInjury3296 Feb 11 '25
I find it some what spellbinding as if not from the Earth but more Alien
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u/thecypher4 Feb 11 '25
The inner child in me wants to run up this whole thing. The adult in me knows I’d be winded before I I get off the road
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u/dardaro Feb 11 '25
It remind me the book "the martian way" when the martians are approaching Jupiter and the sense of oppression since Jupiter fill almost all their field of view
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u/mkshah3 Feb 11 '25
Does anyone know the name of the song and its artist?
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u/LivingUnknown Feb 12 '25
It sounds a lot like Malinda Kathleen Reese. She went viral for singing this song in an empty cathedral. Easy to find on YT. Enjoy!
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u/Cheezer7406 Feb 11 '25
That's one big vagina.
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u/Dramatic-Yam1984 Feb 11 '25
Surprised I had to scroll for so long before finding this lol. High five
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u/Doughnut_slut Feb 11 '25
Sometimes when I get random panic attacks at night, it feels like this but the mountains are on all sides slowly closing you in.
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u/andorraliechtenstein Feb 11 '25
Luckily there was a warning sign for falling rocks, otherwise I wouldn't have expected that at all.
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u/WaterIsWet369 Feb 11 '25
Anybody know the song name?
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u/LivingUnknown Feb 12 '25
I think this version might actually be by Malinda Kathleen Reese, not 100% sure though
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u/Bumpercloud Feb 11 '25
The makes me feel uneasy. Like any moment it can shift and just crumble, completely covering you.
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u/moneyh8r Feb 11 '25
Looks like the inside of a space colony. I can hear the opening narration from Mobile Suit Gundam as I'm watching this.
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